Description

Here's a 2-sided reference guide to help you understand a special technique or know what a music term means.

The front side is filled with all the handbell and handchime symbols you're likely to encounter; the back side offers the most common symbols in general music, including a user-friendly chart with common key signatures and repeat signs.

Both sides offer quick and simple descriptions that are easy to understand at a quick glance.

• Heavyweight laminate, meant to last forever in a binder

Punched to fit a standard 3-ring binder

Click on both the large and the small pictures to view both sides of this guide.

4 Reviews

handbell notation guide

very helpful as I have joined a veteran choir but it&#039;s been several years since I have played. I&#039;v forgotten so many special techniques!

5

Indispensable for handbell ringers and for people who compose for handbells

Posted by Mark on Mar 24th 2016

I am both a handbell ringer and a composer who writes for handbells. There is an almost bewildering assortment of techniques which are used in playing handbells, each with their own unique sound.

I favor linear counterpoint when I compose music -- but I&#039;m also focused on changes in timbre and color. This reference guide is absolutely indispensable for helping me choose and notate the technique I want to use when I&#039;m writing. It&#039;s also a great refresher when I&#039;m playing handbells and see a rarely-used technique (TLD, PL, TPL etc.) this guide is extremely helpful in explaining the technique to be used.

This guide should be in every bell-ringer&#039;s music folder.

5

Very helpful

Posted by Anna on Feb 25th 2014

All the information I need (including a brief description of the technique) in a very concise and easily referenced page. I love it!

5

Handbell reference material

Posted by Linda Vick on Aug 28th 2013

At a recent handbell workshop I saw this sheet
of bell terms which had, not only the sign for the different bell technique, but also explained how to perform the technique. I felt this would be a good thing to have in each of my bellringers folders. This will be a good tool for them to have and help them with their understanding of what to do when playing the music.